Markus Cozowicz created AS7-4518: ------------------------------------ Summary: RunAs on MDB without assembly-descriptor throws NPE Key: AS7-4518 URL: https://issues.jboss.org/browse/AS7-4518 Project: Application Server 7 Issue Type: Bug Components: EJB Affects Versions: 7.1.1.Final Environment: Windows Reporter: Markus Cozowicz Assignee: jaikiran pai When specifying @RunAs("...") on a Message Driven Bean and no <assembly-descriptor/> element in the ejb-jar.xml the following exception is thrown: 01:27:39,417 ERROR [org.jboss.msc.service.fail] (MSC service thread 1-3) MSC00001: Failed to start service jboss.deployment.subunit."mmapp.ear"."mmejb3.jar".POST_MODULE: org.jboss. msc.service.StartException in service jboss.deployment.subunit."mmapp.ear"."mmejb3.jar".POST_MODULE: Failed to process phase POST_MODULE of subdeployment "mmejb3.jar" of deployment "mmapp.ear" at org.jboss.as.server.deployment.DeploymentUnitPhaseService.start(DeploymentUnitPhaseService.java:119) [jboss-as-server-7.1.1.Final.jar:7.1.1.Final] at org.jboss.msc.service.ServiceControllerImpl$StartTask.startService(ServiceControllerImpl.java:1811) [jboss-msc-1.0.2.GA.jar:1.0.2.GA] at org.jboss.msc.service.ServiceControllerImpl$StartTask.run(ServiceControllerImpl.java:1746) [jboss-msc-1.0.2.GA.jar:1.0.2.GA] at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor$Worker.runTask(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:886) [rt.jar:1.6.0_10] at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor$Worker.run(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:908) [rt.jar:1.6.0_10] at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:619) [rt.jar:1.6.0_10] Caused by: org.jboss.as.server.deployment.DeploymentUnitProcessingException: JBAS014402: Could not merge data for UserQueryMessageBean at org.jboss.as.ejb3.deployment.processors.merging.AbstractMergingProcessor.deploy(AbstractMergingProcessor.java:75) at org.jboss.as.server.deployment.DeploymentUnitPhaseService.start(DeploymentUnitPhaseService.java:113) [jboss-as-server-7.1.1.Final.jar:7.1.1.Final] ... 5 more Caused by: java.lang.NullPointerException at org.jboss.as.ejb3.deployment.processors.merging.RunAsMergingProcessor.handleDeploymentDescriptor(RunAsMergingProcessor.java:103) at org.jboss.as.ejb3.deployment.processors.merging.AbstractMergingProcessor.processComponentConfig(AbstractMergingProcessor.java:93) at org.jboss.as.ejb3.deployment.processors.merging.AbstractMergingProcessor.deploy(AbstractMergingProcessor.java:73) ... 6 more -- This message is automatically generated by JIRA. If you think it was sent incorrectly, please contact your JIRA administrators: https://issues.jboss.org/secure/ContactAdministrators!default.jspa For more information on JIRA, see: http://www.atlassian.com/software/jira